History Of Computers
This project explains the , starting from Howard Aiken’s Harvard Mark I to present day time. Although I have not gone over all of the models in my report, I have chosen those which I feel have had the greatest effect on the computer world. I will show how in just forty years, computers have come from complex, slow, room-sized machines, to the small and fast computers of today. These powerful machines are the art of many great men and women, which I will also briefly explain in the project. This project is to show others how these machines, that run many aspects of our life, have come from.
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Computers are one of man-kinds largest achievements. In just forty years, computers ...
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This project was taken up by Dr. J. Presper Eckert Jr., and Dr. John W. Mauchly, with help from a few of their colleagues, in the spring of 1946. For two and a half years, they work diligently to construct a machine called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, or ENIAC. This machine was a complex of 500,000 connections that linked over 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 30 tons, and occupied a room the size of an average three-bedroom home. ENIAC was capable of performing 5,000 additions in one second.
At around the time ENIAC was being created, a man by the name of John Atanasoff was hung up on a problem: How do you get machines to remember stuff you’ve already done? In 1939 Atanstoff and a graduate student, Clifford Berry started on the project of making an electrical computer. In 1942, when completed, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), had input and output, it stored data that could be modified, and it had a memory. In 1973 a historic decision was ...
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